Child of God

Most of my life I worked with my Dad. From a little boy I went everywhere with him. We were a farm family but to make ends meet Dad took on roofing jobs and repair jobs on farm buildings. Whenever a job came along that had something that might be a bit dangerous to do he would always do it to keep me from doing it so that if anything happened it would be to him instead of me. I was 49 when he passed away but he had been working with me right up till the last few months of his life and he would still try to take the risky parts of the job if he was able to. I never stopped being his little boy. 1John3:1 says see what great love the Father has lavished on us that we could be called children of God!! Think about that for a moment. A child of God. Many people were not as blessed with having a great Dad as me. I wish they were. Losing him has been the hardest thing I've ever been through, but as good as he was he cannot compare to how great it is to be a child of God most high!! God, in his great love for us, while we were sinners against him(romans5:8) sent his one and only Son Jesus to die in our place( john3:16). I know that thinking of ourselves as sinners deserving eternal death is not a very warm and fuzzy thought but that is where we are without Christ. But, that is not where we have to be. God has already done the dangerous job so that we don't have to. He, the greatest Father of all fathers, did not want us to suffer even though we deserved it so he himself made a way for us not to. Trusting in the truth that Jesus came, died, and rose again for the forgiveness of your sins will bring you into the family of people that get to call God, the creator of all things, Father. This Father will always be with you!! To have that kind of undeserved love lavished on me is too awesome to explain!! Thank you Father for your great love!! If you haven't trusted in Christ as your savior ,today is a good day to do it!!! You won't regret it!!